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Art Garfunkel's Library: Favorite Books
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Art Garfunkel has read an outstanding number of books in his lifetime. According to him, since 1968 at 27 years of age, he has read 967 books. This is a list of those he considers his favorites books. The books are in the chronological order of which they were read, followed by author, title, date published and number of pages.
| | 1968 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions 1781; 606 pp. |
| | 1969 - L.N. Tolstoy -War and Peace 1869; 1444 pp. |
| | 1970 - Johann Wolfgang Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774; 199 pp. |
| | 1971 - Bill Moyers - Listening to America 1971; 342 pp. |
| | 1972 - L. N. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina 1873; 852 pp. |
| | 1973 - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice 1797; 430 pp. |
| | 1974 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892; 248 pp. |
| | 1975 - Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker 1974; 1162 pp. |
| | 1976 - John S. Shelton - Geology Illustrated 1966; 424 pp. |
| | 1977 - Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift 1973; 472 pp. |
| | 1978 - Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species 1859; 460 pp. |
| | 1979 - Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight 1974; 190 pp. |
| | 1980 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave 1962; 287 pp. |
| | 1981 - Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged) 1787; 713 pp. |
| | 1982 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote 1604; 940 pp. |
| | 1983 - William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902; 500 pp. |
| | 1984 - James Joyce - Ulysses 1921; 783 pp. |
| | 1985 - William M. Thackeray - Vanity Fair 1847; 636 pp. |
| | 1986 - Virgil - The Aeneid 30-19bc.; 336 pp. |
| | 1987 - Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan 1651; 729 pp. |
| | 1988 - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground 1864; 158 pp. |
| | 1989 - Charles Dickens - Bleak House 1853; 975 pp. |
| | 1990 - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad 1867; 492 pp. |
| | 1991 - Will and Ariel Durant - The Story of Civilization VIII: The Age of Louis XIV 1963; 74 pp. |
| | 1992 - H.G. Wells - A Short History of the World 1922; 357 pp. |
| | 1993 - Hermann Hesse - Demian 1919; 179 pp. |
| | 1994 - Franz Kafka - The Trial 1920; 256 pp. |
| | 1995 - Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh 1903; 444 pp. |
| | 1996 - Robert D. Kaplan - Balkan Ghosts 1993; 300 pp. |
| | 1997 - Charles and Mary Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare 1807; 313 pp. |
| | 1998 - Patrick Süskind - Perfume 1985; 263 pp. |
| | 1999 - Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha 1997; 428 pp. |
| | 2000 - Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 |
| | 2002 - Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters 1866 |
| | 2003 - Charles Bukowski - Post Office 1971; 196 pp. |
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967 books in 40 years is only about 24 books a year, or two a month. I've easily read more than that. But I haven't kept a list.
Comment by: oskarg
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